Question

1 Tom was not bigger than a _________.
(thumb, toe)
2 The woodsman was going to the________.
(shop, forest)
3 The woodsman would cut wood for__________.
(furniture, fuel
4 The woodsman wanted someone to bring the_________
after him.
(cart, axe)
5 Tom would sit in the__________
of the horse. (ear, nose)​

Answer 1

Answer:

1.toe.

2.forest.

3.furniture .

4.cart.

5.nose.

Answer 2

1. Tom was not bigger than a thumb.

2. The woodsman was going to the___forest_____.

3 The woodsman would cut wood for___fuel_______.

4. The woodsman wanted someone to bring the____axe_____  after him.

5. Tom would sit in the___ear_______  of the horse.

Explanation:

• Tom was not bigger than a thumb.  Tom Thumb is a very famous character of the English folklore. He is a boy who was no bigger than his father's thumb. It was for his miniature size that he has so many adventures which formed the stories of the folk lore.

• A sentence may have any number of nouns but the most important noun in the sentence serves as the subject of the sentence. The other nouns are objects which may be direct or indirect or complements of the object.  In the given sentence the subject is 'woodsman'. Woods agrees with the subject while shop is just the contrast.
• A 'woodsman ' cuts wood and gathers it for fuel. He is not a carpenter nor a rich man who will need wood to make or buy furniture.
• The woodsman cuts wood with an axe. After he has cut a lot of wood he will need a vehicle to carry it. This he will ask for a cart.
• Tom Thumb was so tiny that he couldn't sit on the saddle of the horse and pull at its reins to give it directions.  So Tom suggested to his father that he should sit in the Horse's ear and shout out the instructions to it.